SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, September 9, 1904. 



CONTENTS; 

 The State Ichthyology of Massachusetts: Dr. 

 Theo. Gidl 321 



The Cold-current System of the Pacific, and 

 Source of the Pacific Coast Ctirrent : The 

 Rev. S. E. Bishop 338 



Membership in the American Association. . . . 341 



Scientific Books: — 



Sir William Hen/ry Flower: P. A. Lucas. . 342 



Discussion amd Correspondence : — 

 Anitnal Seat and Fever: Dr. Woods Hutch- 

 inson 343 



Special Articles: — 



Recent Oiservations on Daemonelix: 0. A. 

 Peterson 344 



Quotations : — 



The Cancer Research Fund 345 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry: — 



Radium and Radioactivity : J. L. H 345 



Ancient Natural History Lore: Dr. C. R. 

 Eastman 347 



The British Association 348 



The Eighth International Geographic Con- 

 gress 349 



The International Congress of Arts and 

 Science 349 



Scientific Notes and News 350 



University and Educational News 352 



MSS. Intended for publication and books, etc., intended 

 for review stiould be sent to the Editor of Science, Garri- 

 aon-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



STATE ICHTHYOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

 I. 

 The history of the ichthyology of Massa- 

 chusetts has never been written and a 

 sketch of such appeared to me to be the 

 best and most seasonable response I could 

 make to the invitation to address the in- 

 vestigators and students assembled at the 

 headquarters in Massachusetts of the 

 United States Pish Commission. The his- 

 tory is an interesting and a rather remark- 

 able one. Of course, in the time allotted 

 for an address, only the salient features of 

 a long history can be given and many 

 minor communications and even popular 

 works relating to the ichthyology of the 

 region in question must remain unnoticed. 

 The room is requisite for a neglected sub- 

 ject. We are often curious to know some- 

 thing about the personality of the men 

 whose work we consider and such informa- 

 tion is generally difficult for the scientific 

 student to obtain. Of several of the old 

 and departed writers on the fishes of Massa- 

 chusetts notices will be now given, and 

 when reference is nest made to their writ- 

 ings, perhaps it may be done with a new 

 interest and better means of judging their 

 work. 



The history of Massachusetts ichthyol- 

 ogy begins early in the history of the 

 United States— earlier even than any set- 



* An address delivered at Woods Hole, before the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, on the evening of 

 August 3, 1904. 



The early history may be found given at greater 

 length in the new edition of Goode's ' American 

 Fishes,' edited by Gill and published by Dana 

 Estes & Co., of Boston (1903). 



